forrest-svn mailing list archives

Author: crossley
Date: Fri Oct 15 06:43:27 2004
New Revision: 54852
Modified:
forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
Log:
Add some more notes, having done the release.
Do some things in different sequence.
Modified: forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
==============================================================================
--- forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt Fri Oct 15 06:43:27 2004
@@ -81,10 +81,12 @@
See http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/branches/
- Test the actual distribution on various platforms.
+ - Upload the release candidates and signatures to a committer's webspace.
- Ask all developers to test (command-line, run, and webapp).
- - Each developer can do 'build dist' and test locally. Coordinate to ensure
- that each is using the same SVN revision and that the MD5 sums match.
- - Follow the actual user instructions.
+ - Each developer can do 'build release- dist' and test locally.
+ Coordinate to ensure that each is using the same SVN revision
+ and that the MD5 sums match.
+ - Follow the actual user instructions in README.txt and index.html
- Use it to build some difficult sites.
- Ensure that the compressed archives will unpack correctly.
@@ -103,21 +105,25 @@
to www.apache.org at /www/www.apache.org/ dist/forrest/
Each PMC member has a server account and belongs to the forrest group.
The process is documented at http://cvs.apache.org/~bodewig/mirror.html
+ Ensure correct file permissions: chgrp forrest; chmod 664
+ Leave the previous dist there as well, until after the announcement.
FIXME: on server do 'svn co' in /www/www.apache.org/dist/forrest/
HEAD.html README.html LICENSE.txt KEYS
- For the meantime, it is a manual scp.
+ For the meantime, it is a manual scp from the "forrest/dist" SVN repo.
- Arrange stuff at the Archives site http://archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/
+ This is automatically copied from the main /dist/forrest/
+
+ - Wait for the various mirrors to pick up the new files.
+ For some mirrors, this takes only a few hours. However others are slow.
+ How long to wait is a tradeoff.
+ See "Status of mirrors" http://www.apache.org/mirrors/
- Edit the forrest/src/documentation/content/xdocs/mirrors.ihtml
- Edit the Forrest home page in the "News and events" section.
- Rebuild and publish the Forrest website as normal.
- - Wait for the various mirrors to pick up the new files.
- This has been known to take up to 10 hours. Test it via
- http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi
-
- Edit xml-site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/news.xml and record the
announcement, and then commit the new HTML to xml-site/targets/forrest
Note that they still use forrest-0.5.1 to build their website.
@@ -137,6 +143,7 @@
0.4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-announce&m=104510734501302
0.5 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=106352706005681
0.5.1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=106541447606765
+0.6 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=109784461425740
- Ask Jeff Turner to do the freshmeat announcement, or add you as an admin.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/forrest/
@@ -158,6 +165,11 @@
| Forrest Site Builder |
| 0.8-dev |
+ - Remove the old dist files from the dist/forrest/ directory.
+ It has already been archived at archives.apache.org
+
+ - Tweak the "release" versions via "admin" interface at our Jira.
+ - Review the Issues for the old version and move any Incomplete ones up.
All done!